19th-Century Australian Travel Writing
Reverend Henry Carmichael (1796–1862) was a schoolmaster, educational theorist, educator, and Professor of Natural Philosophy at John Dunmore Lang's Australian College in Sydney. Carmichael originally wrote his practical "Hints" for inclusion in the New South Wales Calendar, but later sent the tract for separate publication to London. In Hints Relating to Emigrants and Emigration Carmichael addresses the various classes of free emigrants "who are daily arriving in Sydney" on the practical steps necessary for them to establish themselves in the colony: choosing land, organising transport, investing capital, and so forth. The second edition marks a split with the Calendar and a new association with the New South Wales Pocket Almanack. Carmichael stated in the Preface that the chief changes in the second edition included a comparison between emigration to America and New South Wales, and observations on whaling and banking, and a third edition was published in 1839. There was an emphasis in these guides on how to not fail as an emigrant in the Australian colonies.
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